This book is an award magnet. It won the Scotiabank Giller Prize (praise be!), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction (holla), and was a finalist for both the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (hella impressive). So you can bet I was expecting it to be a good read.
It. Was. And bonus: Edugyan is a Victorian!
My only complaint quibble is that the dialogue made it a bit of a sluggish read—but really, it just forced me to slow down and take it all in.
No. 20 on my challenge. Because it was on the Canada Reads shortlist, too.
Being Tori 
Don’t be afraid. I won’t smite you. Probably.